Adrian Perkins

Adrian Perkins (27 August 1986-) was Mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana from 29 December 2018, succeeding Ollie Tyler.

Biography
Adrian Perkins was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1986, and he attended West Point and served in the US Army from 2009 to 2015, serving in the Iraq War and Afghanistan War as an artillery officer. Upon his return home, he became a lawyer, and he was elected Mayor of Shreveport in 2018. In 2019, he issued an official apology for the musician Sam Cooke's arrest while protesting a whites-only Shreveport hotel's refusal to serve him and his family in 1963.